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 "title": "To Mark Twain",
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 "poet": "Henry van Dyke Jr.",
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   {
    "text": "With memories old and wishes new",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We crown our cups again,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And here’s to you, and here’s to you",
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   },
   {
    "text": "With love that ne’er shall wane!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And may you keep, at sixty-seven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The joy of earth, the hope of heaven,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And fame well-earned, and friendship true,",
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   {
    "text": "And peace that comforts every pain,",
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   {
    "text": "And faith that fights the battle through,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all your heart’s unbounded wealth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all your wit, and all your health⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yes, here’s a hearty health to you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And here’s to you, and here’s to you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Long life to you, Mark Twain.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "We knew you well, dear Yorick of the West,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The very soul of large and friendly jest!",
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   },
   {
    "text": "You loved and mocked the broad grotesque of things",
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   {
    "text": "In this new world where all the folk are kings.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Your breezy humour cleared the air, with sport",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of shams that haunt the democratic court;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "For even where the sovereign people rule,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A human monarch needs a royal fool.",
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  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Your native drawl lent flavour to your wit;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Your arrows lingered but they always hit;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Homeric mirth around the circle ran,",
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   {
    "text": "But left no wound upon the heart of man.",
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  [
   {
    "text": "We knew you kind in trouble, brave in pain;",
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   {
    "text": "We saw your honour kept without a stain;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "We read this lesson of our Yorick’s years⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "True wisdom comes with laughter and with tears.",
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